Originally Posted by
Cecil Burch
100% not true. Yes, if your H2H skills are dependent on your attributes, or specific techniques only, then sure, it can be an issue. But I don't judge efficacy based on poor tactics and methods.
I have had a large number of 65+ folks come through my classes. Craig has had even more. I also have mulitple 65+ students at my jiujitsu academy training multiple times a week and they do fine against younger partners. I myself turn 59 in a few weeks, and after 45 years of beating my body up and building injuries, I am a far better and more effective fighter than at any time in the past.
Don't rely on attributes or cool guy techniques, but understanding concepts, principles, leverage, proper body mechanics, and overall strategy, removes you from having to be a perfect athletic specimen to fight.
But I don't want to open up that can or worms, so I will focus on this:
Absolutely not. The tool has almost zero to do with the ability to get the gun deployed in time to meet the threat.
There are two places where you can access, deploy, and use the gun in the manner that will give you some functionality - 1) when there is plenty of distance between you and the bad guy (a MINIMUM of 5 yards), or 2) when you can physically control the bad guy in a way that you can use your gun and he can't interfere. That's it. This is what Craig so eloquently calls a timing decision. If you try to get the gun out at any other time is a poor choice. And we don't see this just in training FoF scenarios, but in real life. I have posted videos of real world violent situations on my blog over the years illustrating this very point.
There is almost no tool that can aid in this process. It does not matter the size of the gun, the carry method, how cool your sub second draw is, the ammo, etc. You either have and maintain distance or you need to control the other guy long enough for your gun to do it's job. Both of those are pure software. I have been actively working on the problem for 20 years, and at this point I have been either a student, instrudtor, or assistant instructor for multiple thousands of FoF scenarios, and have seen thousands of students come through them. Craig has been working the problem even longer and has seen many more than I have. If either of us had ever seen a "best practices" situation where a tool would give you a leg up, we would have not only been teaching it, but doing it ourselves. That has not happened.
There are no easy buttons to push for this issue, regardless of what we would like.